How is epilepsy transmitted

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Family members and friends must clearly understand the performance of epilepsy patients, and the disease has a very high heritability, and the acquired causes are also very many. Let's talk about how epilepsy is transmitted, which we are very concerned about.

How is epilepsy transmitted

First: epilepsy is divided into primary and secondary two categories, generally speaking, secondary epilepsy caused by lesions damage inside and outside the skull. For example, intracranial tumor, brain injury, brain abscess and encephalitis, this kind of secondary epilepsy is usually not hereditary.

Second: primary epilepsy was previously considered as a single gene dominant or recessive genetic disease. In recent years, it is considered to be a polygenic genetic disease.

Third: the children born to women with primary epilepsy are likely to get epilepsy, especially if they are close relatives or both men and women are patients with primary epilepsy, the risk of their children will increase many times;

matters needing attention

Some hereditary diseases will show epilepsy symptoms, such as tuberous sclerosis, phenylketonuria, galactosemia and other diseases. Although their clinical symptoms are secondary epilepsy, because these diseases are obvious genetic diseases, this kind of symptomatic epilepsy will certainly be inherited.